DAY 137

I have missed a couple of days posting photos on this page.

I click a picture a day (photography is like breathing - i know it sounds corny, but that's what it is for me. I have to click pics everyday. I remember a day when I was unable to go out and I had exhausted all the things that I could click around my house. So I sat down and took pics of my finger nails in different angles. No it is not vanity. It is just that I like taking pictures. :)

So, though I have been clicking pictures every day, on some days I have been unable to post them. That is because I have a new assignment that consumes most of my time. Work on the new assignment continues even after I return home, late at night.

By the time I finish work, I am too tired and sleepy and I hit the sack, telling myself, I am going to get up early tomorrow morning and post the pic on my 365 day project.

Morning arrives. I wake up and then it is all a blur and whir -as I call it.

It is with great love and passion that I started the 365 day project. And it saddened me greatly when I missed posting pics.

As I was sharing my plight with my mom (and Ginju who insists I include her in all discussions), my mother as usual gave me an option (though i keep telling her her options are no options at all they only pretend to be.)

She said, "It is up to you. If you want you can drop the project. Because you started it and you have every right to do so. If you want you can continue it, because again, you started it and you have every right to do it."

At which point I was rolling my eyes at her...

The point is, she said, it is your vision. You have to own it. No body can do it for you.

Mom usually disappears into the kitchen after the punchline and I am left to fend and mend on my own terms.

Yes, I have to own my vision. Which means, I gotta make a promise to myself - no matter what happens, I post a pic here....because it makes me happy.

So, here's the image that will be a reminder to me about why i enjoy photography and why I started this project - to have fun, to laugh, to think, to stretch my grey cells and to be happy.